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The House Crowd boosts investor interest rate offer

14th October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Goji launches new payment capabilities

7th October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Irish P2P lender Linked Finance launches ‘Brexit loans’

7th October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Funding Options confirms Simon Cureton’s appointment as interim CEO

4th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Crowdfunding founder Nicola Horlick to stand for Lib Dems in London

4th October 2019
Oliver Smith

LendingCrowd signs deal to boost SME lending

3rd October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Alternative SME lenders slash rates below most high street banks

3rd October 2019
Oliver Smith

P2P/Marketplace Lending

Pollen Street fund sees August bounce following Castlehaven sale

6th October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

OakNorth Bank strikes deal with Shieldpay to launch digital escrow accounts for borrowers

24th September 2019
John Reynolds

Esme Loans increases maximum loans from £150,000 to £250,000 for SMEs and scale up businesses

17th September 2019
John Reynolds

Fintechs in India and Mexico raise millions to crack underserved markets

9th September 2019
Oliver Smith

Funding Circle and Metro Bank ejected from FTSE 250

5th September 2019
Roger Baird

Ultimate Finance pulls out of unsecured lending market

4th September 2019
Roger Baird

P2P Global Investments sees “disappointing” July returns

3rd September 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Alternative Credit

Alternative Credit Fintech Challenger Banks

Penfold launches digital pensions aimed at the self-employed

10th October 2019
Oliver Smith

PensionBee CEO joins Pensions Dashboard steering group

27th September 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Moneyfarm raises €40m Series C round, forms Poste Italiane API partnership

26th September 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Scalable Capital and Raisin partner on cash savings product

24th September 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Octopus completes £10m takeover of wealthtech provider Seccl

11th September 2019
Oliver Smith

Nutmeg integrates with Apple Pay

11th September 2019
Daniel Lanyon

MoneyBox Review - September 2019

2nd September 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Robo-Advice

Curve opens Bristol office in UK hiring drive

11th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Bank of England lays down rules for Facebook's Libra

10th October 2019
John Reynolds

Cuvva appoints Lloyd's of London chairman to chair its board

10th October 2019
John Reynolds

Starling adds invoice insurance for business accounts via Nimbla partnership

10th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Checkout.com reveals new headquarters as revenues jump to over $70m

9th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Nutmeg posts extra losses in 2018 of nearly £20m

8th October 2019
Oliver Smith

ID Finance turns to Crowdcube as it targets revenues of €300m+ within two years

8th October 2019
John Reynolds

Fintech

Fintech Challenger Banks

Revolut looks to raise £1.2bn from investors

14th October 2019
John Reynolds

The Challenger: bunq's Ali Niknam

14th October 2019
John Reynolds

Starling launches TV ad campaign after reaching 900,000 customers

14th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Shawbrook Bank revamps portfolio with new savings accounts and digital reboot

11th October 2019
John Reynolds

Yolt and Raisin launch new partnership

8th October 2019
Daniel Lanyon

ID Finance turns to Crowdcube as it targets revenues of €300m+ within two years

8th October 2019
John Reynolds

Bunq founder hints at VC funding as reveals losses of around €11m in last financial year

7th October 2019
John Reynolds

Challenger Banks

Challenger Banks Fintech

Fintech accounted for 38% of Crowdcube’s funds raised in Q3 2019

11th October 2019
Oliver Smith

Seedrs teases its own “substantially larger” funding round coming in 2020

1st October 2019
Oliver Smith

Seedrs suspends its own shares after entering “advanced stages” of a new funding round

12th August 2019
Oliver Smith

Crowdfunding pioneer Goncalo de Vasconcelos steps down as SyndicateRoom CEO

24th July 2019
Oliver Smith

Investor fintech demand drives record six months for Crowdcube

9th July 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Take Two: Freetrade launches second crowdfunding at higher £43m valuation

25th June 2019
Oliver Smith

Impact investment app Tickr hits 200% of its crowdfunding target

24th June 2019
Oliver Smith

Equity Crowdfunding

Equity Crowdfunding Fintech

Property Partner reveals plan for profitability in 2020, but will slash headcount to 7

12th September 2019
Oliver Smith

LendInvest reportedly shelves IPO plans for now

27th August 2019
Oliver Smith

Seedrs secures The House Crowd for £1m crowdfund

23rd August 2019
Oliver Smith

Property Partner’s new fee structure knocks prices by 5.8% as resales soar

6th August 2019
Oliver Smith

Habito prepares to announce Series C as Augmentum Fintech reveals £5m backing

2nd August 2019
Oliver Smith

Fintech Tips: What new Property Partner fees mean for investors?

16th July 2019
Roger Baird

Property Partner: New CEO announced, dividends slashed, fees introduced

16th July 2019
Oliver Smith

Property

Recruitment lender Sonovate raises £110m from M&G, Dawn Capital and Bebo founders

9th September 2019
Oliver Smith

Banks and credit fund among MarketInvoice Series B investors

21st January 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Fintech factoring firm scoops €10m fundraise

13th November 2018
Ryan Weeks

Italian invoice trading platform CashMe raises €1.5m

4th September 2018
Daniel Lanyon

MarketInvoice strikes strategic deal with Barclays

2nd August 2018
Ryan Weeks

BlueVine bags another $12m from Microsoft and Nationwide

31st July 2018
Ryan Weeks

P2P Global Investments hit by Urica collapse

24th July 2018
Daniel Lanyon

Invoice Funding

Invoice Funding Alternative Credit

Exclusive: Staff stage 'coup' at blockchain startup Nodal Labs

4th September 2019
Oliver Smith

Blockchain start-ups raise $23.7bn since 2013

14th August 2019
Daniel Lanyon

The entrepreneur betting Blockchain-powered titans of industry will outperform

17th July 2019
Oliver Smith

Crypto for Earthlings Episode 6: A stable coin?

3rd June 2019
Oliver Smith

Investigators Elliptic get data from Wirex to combat crypto crime

24th May 2019
Oliver Smith

All that glisters is not Bitcoin: Retail investors lost £27m to crypto scams last tax year

21st May 2019
Daniel Lanyon

Crypto for Earthlings Episode 5: The investor

19th May 2019
Oliver Smith

Crypto and Blockchain

Crypto and Blockchain Fintech

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